Isaiah Sypher, a fellow in the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology, has been awarded an APA Minority Fellowship from the American Psychological Association.
Funded by a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the program helps promising graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and early career professionals achieve lasing success in areas related to ethnic minority psychology. It provides financial support, professional development activities, and opportunities for professional and personal guidance and supports the specialized training of early career doctoral recipients who have primary interests in services or policy related to the behavioral health or psychological well-being of communities of color.
Sypher is a graduate of the University of Michigan graduate program and is completing his fellowship in Substance Abuse Services at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.